Prime Video's Kirk Herbstreit misidentifies 49ers All-Pro in embarrassing 'Thursday Night Football' gaffe
It's been a minute since Trent Williams was seen on a field for the San Francisco 49ers, the All-Pro left tackle on Thursday missing a fourth straight game with an ankle injury. But you'd expect the team calling the Thursday Night Football matchup with the Los Angeles Rams to know what the future Hall of […]
It's been a minute since Trent Williams was seen on a field for the San Francisco 49ers, the All-Pro left tackle on Thursday missing a fourth straight game with an ankle injury.
But you'd expect the team calling the Thursday Night Football matchup with the Los Angeles Rams to know what the future Hall of Famer looks like.
Color announcer Kirk Herbstreit and the producers of Thursday Night Football apparently do not.
While talking about George Kittle's comments on the 49ers' loss of several veterans to injury, Herbstreit said: "There's Trent Williams, who's a big part of the grit of that offensive line and they really miss him up front."
The problem, the man in the picture, despite being captioned as Trent Williams, was not Trent Williams.
On the contrary, it was practice squad defensive lineman Nesta Jade Silvera, who unwittingly found himself in the middle of an embarrassing viral moment for Herbstreit and the Prime Video team.
They rectified things later in the first half by showing actual Trent Williams sat up in a luxury suite.
But by that point the damage was done.
